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Analysis: Solar Technologies Can Speed up Vaccine Rollout in Africa. Here’s How
There’s hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against COVID-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to vaccinate even the most essential workers in developing countries has only just begun.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, vaccines
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Analysis: COVID-19 Underscores Need to Boost Pharma Manufacturing in Emerging Markets
The scramble to produce vaccines and therapeutics and the challenges of getting these products to poorer countries underscores the growing importance of local pharma manufacturers for these emerging markets.
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- Coronavirus
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- manufacturing, scale, vaccines
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Analysis: China’s Ambitious COVID-19 Vaccination Plan to Test Its Production Capability
China aims to vaccinate at least half a billion of its people against COVID-19 in four months, a challenge that will test the country’s formidable industrial might just as it accelerates efforts to help inoculate the rest of the world.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- manufacturing, vaccines
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Press Release: DFC Announces Support for Manufacturing of Vaccines During Quad Summit
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced it will work with Indian manufacturer Biological E Ltd. to finance increased capacity to support Biological E’s effort to produce at least 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2022 with Stringent Regulatory Authorization (SRA) and/or World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Use Listing, including Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- gender lens, vaccines
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Africans Slam Rich Nations for Blocking Access to Generic COVID Vaccines
Charities in Africa slammed rich nations on Thursday for blocking efforts to waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines, saying this would prolong the pandemic for years in poorer nations and push millions across the continent deeper into poverty.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Analysis: A New Year Brings Enduring Challenges: Financing for Water and Sanitation Utilities During COVID-19
Despite well-established links between WASH and infection prevention, it appears that WASH may have, once again, failed to garner adequate support.
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- Coronavirus, WASH
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- public health, vaccines
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The First COVID-19 Vaccines Shipped Through COVAX Were Administered in the Ivory Coast
Frontline workers and public officials from the Ivory Coast on March 1 became the first people in the world to receive COVID-19 vaccines shipped from the COVAX Facility, in a long-awaited step toward global health equity.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Analysis: In Vaccine Race, Middle Income Nations Are At A Disadvantage. Just Ask Peru.
Peru is classified by the World Bank as "upper middle-income." So it has some money to spend on vaccines but not nearly the financial resources of the U.S., the European Union or even wealthier neighbors like Brazil or Chile.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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- vaccines